Bertjan pot biography channel

Bertjan Pot isn’t like most designers. As widely acclaimed for his high-end commercial products (his Random Light for Moooi is now a classic) as his colourful woven-rope masks, he clearly isn’t afraid to toy with expectations and to push the limits of methods and materials.

Whatever he’s working on, though, he prefers to keep things simple, eschewing technologies such as 3D printing in favour of techniques like knitting, knotting and weaving. In most cases, Pot starts off by taking something small – a piece of yarn or a bead, for instance – and then follows a sequence of repeated gestures to turn the everyday material into something radically different.

You could say he adds the “extra” to the ordinary.

Like many of his contemporaries, Pot embraces a handmade aesthetic,but with an intellectual focus.

Bertjan pot biography channel

Beauty, in his view, isn’t about perfection; it’s about finding solutions. And design is about engaging the mind as much as the senses. Despite their simple appearance, Pot